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Trump halts military strikes on Houthis but expert warns Iran-backed terrorist group remains major threat
President Donald Trump made the surprise announcement this week that the U.S., after weeks of intense strikes, will halt all bombing campaigns on the Houthis in Yemen – but experts have warned the Iran-backed group will not sit idle.
In Trump’s Tuesday announcement from the Oval Office, he claimed the Houthis «just don’t want to fight…and we will honor that. We will stop the bombings.»
The president would not say who provided him with this confirmation by the terrorist network, which for years has attacked U.S. and allied ships in the Red Sea in a major threat to freedom of navigation, but in a laugh following the question, he replied that it came from a «very good source.»
Less than two hours later, Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, the foreign minister of Oman, took to X to say, «Following recent discussions and contacts conducted by the Sultanate of Oman with the United States and the relevant authorities in Sana’a, in the Republic of Yemen, with the aim of de-escalation, efforts have resulted in a ceasefire agreement between the two sides.»
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President Donald Trump, right, announced the U.S. would end its bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen while sitting next to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
«In the future, neither side will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping,» he added.
The post suggests that Oman, which has also played an intermediary in the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks, was heavily involved in securing the ceasefire.
However, a new report obtained by Fox News Digital ahead of the president’s surprise announcement warns that the Trump administration must remain vigilant against major security threats posed by the Houthis and the international actors supporting the terrorist network.
The report, dubbed «The Houthi Challenge: Forging a Strategy to Defeat the Iran-Backed Terror Group in Yemen» by Ari Heistein for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, highlighted that it is not only Iran that have helped facilitate the Houthi operational capabilities.
While Tehran has backed the Houthis since at least 2014 – and possibly as early as 2009 during the war in Yemen – through training and advanced weapons like ballistic missiles, Oman has also played a role by allowing the group to operate from its territory and serving as a key smuggling route for Iranian arms.
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Houthi supporters gather to attend a rally in protest of the United States’ airstrikes on Yemen and Israel’s ongoing strikes in the Gaza Strip in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the current executive director of the FDD, called Oman’s role in negotiations between Washington and Middle East adversaries «outrageous.»
«To hold them up as responsible intermediaries when they are in fact hosting the very group that we’re trying to dismantle, there’s very little logic [in] this position,» he told Fox News Digital.
The report found that Iranian arms are smuggled into Yemen through the port of Hodeidah – which was targeted in a series of Israeli strikes on major infrastructure in and around the Houthi-controlled capital of Sana’a this week – but also through smaller ports or overland through Oman.
Omani private banking institutions and businesses are also reportedly known to be «servicing the Houthi economy and even supplying the group with arms.»
«More must be done to prevent bulk cash smuggling across the border between Oman and Yemen,» Heistein found. «Muscat must begin to feel pressure from the international community to address a threat finance challenge that has gone unchecked for too long.»
The report breaks down the varied steps that need to be taken to effectively undermine and counter the Houthis as repeated military strikes by first, Saudi Arabia starting in 2015, then recently by the U.S. and Israel, have not significantly degraded the terrorist group.
Houthi fighters walk over British and U.S flags at a rally in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the recent Houthi strikes on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden on Feb. 4, 2024, on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)
Those steps include continued military action – similar to Israel’s recent strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port and Sana’a International Airport, which are expected to have far-reaching economic impacts and increase internal pressure on the Houthis. But military action alone isn’t enough; economic, diplomatic, and other soft power strategies are also needed to weaken the group, according to the report.
The report also highlighted that the Houthis have utilized previous lulls in fighting with nations like Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Israel to regroup and rebuild.
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«Compelling the Houthis to halt attacks on shipping is a meaningful achievement only if it is part of a broader, long-term strategy,» Heistein told Fox News Digital. «However, if a Red Sea ceasefire becomes the centerpiece and endpoint of U.S. policy toward the Houthis, it risks empowering an increasingly dangerous regime to escalate and de-escalate at will.
«Without a comprehensive approach to addressing the Houthi threat, the U.S. and its allies could soon be confronting a more dangerous, better-armed terrorist group,» Heinstein warned.
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An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed Thursday after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at 1:38 p.m. local time, Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the directorate of civil aviation, told The Associated Press. There were 232 passengers and 12 crew members onboard the flight.
«With profound sorrow I confirm that Air India Flight 171 operating Ahmedabad London Gatwick was involved in a tragic accident today. Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the families and loved ones of all those affected by this devastating event,» Air India Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran wrote on X.
Local media showed smoke billowing from the crash site near the airport in northwestern India.
Firefighters work at the site of an airplane that crashed in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP/Ajit Solanki)
«At this moment, our primary focus is on supporting all the affected people and their families. We are doing everything in our power to assist the emergency response teams at the site and to provide all necessary support and care to those impacted,» Chandrasekaran added.
London’s Gatwick Airport also wrote on X that «We can confirm that flight AI171 that crashed on departure from Ahmedabad Airport today was due to land at London Gatwick at 18:25.»
An Air India airlines jet. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
India’s Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu posted on X that rescue teams have been mobilized, and all efforts are being made to ensure medical aid and relief support at the site.
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«We are on highest alert. I am personally monitoring the situation,» he said.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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EXCLUSIVE: A group of DOGE-minded lawmakers is rolling out a series of budget proposals to add to the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act narrowly passed by the House.
The effort, led by Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman Joni Ernst, will include several major proposals forged by Republicans from both chambers, seeking to help offset trillions in extant government spending.
While a $9.4 billion rescissions package, a formal request from the executive branch to codify its DOGE cuts, is in the works, proponents of the Senate DOGE package say their total estimated savings would accentuate that and also surpass it in value.
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«We have a ‘big, beautiful’ opportunity to reduce reckless spending and save billions of dollars,» Ernst told Fox News Digital Thursday.
«Defunding welfare for politicians, stopping bogus payments and ending unemployment for millionaires are just the start of my commonsense solutions to continue rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. Washington has lived high on the hog for far too long, and now is the time to tighten the belt,» the Senate DOGE chairwoman added.
Sen. Joni Ernst talks to reporters after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the U.S. Capitol Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington. (Getty Images)
Senate DOGE addendums to the Big Beautiful Bill Act during negotiations will include a plan from Ernst called the ELECT Act, which she said claws back hundreds of millions of dollars treated as «welfare for politicians.»
While $320 million from the fund was diverted to the Secret Service last year, the current $17 million sitting in the account is expected to rise to the $400 million it typically sat at by the end of the year, Fox News Digital has learned.
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Partnered in that first piece of the DOGE package is also language stripping former presidents of certain perks like additional taxpayer-funded office space and non-security-related staff.
More than a dozen Senate Republicans also signed onto that portion of the package.
«The federal government must be held accountable for every tax dollar spent,» said co-sponsor Mike Lee of Utah.
House DOGE Caucus Chair Aaron Bean, R-Fla., also contributed to the package. The Senate version of his DOGE in Spending Act will be included in Senate negotiations.
That portion requires any government expenditure to be accompanied by a tangible record to be provided to the Treasury after DOGE found $160 billion in taxpayer funds being distributed without an identification code or in a fraudulent manner.
«The American people deserve a government that is efficient, accountable and fiscally responsible. That’s why the House successfully advanced DOGE reforms through reconciliation that will safeguard America’s financial future,» Bean told Fox News Digital.
«I encourage the Senate to build on the work we’ve done in the House to deliver lasting fiscal responsibility to the American people.»
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Other pieces of the Senate’s DOGE package include ending what proponents call «unemployment for millionaires,» disqualifying people earning more than $1 million per year who lose their jobs from any unemployment support.
More than $271 million had been disbursed to that bloc between 2021-2023, proponents said.
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is leading the Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallet Act in the lower chamber. The bill’s language, which ends taxpayer-funded union time when government workers negotiate their contracts while on the clock, will be included in the Senate DOGE package.
Another portion will compel the sale of six unused or underutilized federal buildings in Washington, D.C., that lawmakers say would free up $400 million in savings annually.
The final portion will «snap back inaccurate SNAP payments,» Ernst said.
The effort will work to identify errors, force collection of overpayments to SNAP recipients and hold states with high levels of their own payment inaccuracies accountable for their negligence.
In 2023, approximately $11 billion in SNAP funds were overpaid, but the package’s authors noted individual errors of $54 or less aren’t included in the tally.
Democrats have been critical of DOGE efforts and the separate rescissions package. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., told Fox News Thursday a successful version of the latter hasn’t passed since the first Bush administration.
«Congress’ role in setting spending would be done away with, so this first rescission should be defeated,» he said.
Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
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Los Ángeles: así funcionan los grupos de WhatsApp que se organizan para avisar de las redradas migratorias
El mensaje llega a través de las redes sociales y se replica en pocos minutos en cientos de grupos de WhatsApp. Son avisos de alerta. En pocas palabras, activistas de organizaciones defensoras de los derechos de los migrantes advierten a los vecinos de Los Ángeles sobre la presencia de patrullas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en determinado punto de la ciudad.
“En estos momentos ay (sic) mucha actividad de ICE en Baldwin (Hills)”, escribió el miércoles 11 en su página de Facebook la combativa organización conocida como Unión del Barrio, que tiene casi 300.000 seguidores en esa red social.
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No fue el único mensaje del día. Otros fueron acompañados por videos que alertaban sobre la presencia de agentes de migración en South Gate, Firestone Boulevard y Downey, entre otras zonas de la ciudad militarizada por orden de Donald Trump para reprimir las protestas contra las redadas migratorias.
La alarma se activa de inmediato. Los vecinos de la zona advertida replican el mensaje en sus grupos de mensajería instantánea y todos se encierran en sus casas. Los que están en camino suspenden el viaje y esperan a que la redada finalice.
“Nadie sabe cómo y cuándo puede caer la migra. La gente sigue trabajando. Lo hacen con mucho temor. Pero los vecinos se han organizado. Entre ellos se comunican cuando hay presencia de agentes del ICE en sus vecindarios”, dijo a TN el director de la American Friends Service Committee´s, Pedro Ríos, una organización que defiende los derechos de los migrantes.
Los vecinos protestan y se organizan para evitar las redadas migratorias
Miles de personas salieron a protestar en los últimos días en el centro de Los Ángeles contra la oleada de redadas migratorias en distintos puntos de la ciudad. En las movilizaciones hubo disturbios, incendios de automóviles y saqueos. Decenas de personas indocumentadas fueron arrestadas y deportadas, según denuncian activistas.
Trump envió en respuesta a 4000 miembros de la Guardia Nacional y 700 marines para reprimir las protestas.
La policía detiene a una persona en el centro de Los Ángeles (Foto: Reuters)
Pero los vecinos hispanos no solo protestan. También se organizan.
“Han tomado cursos (sobre sus derechos), patrullan sus propias comunidades, se alertan a través de grupos de WhatsApp, se pasan mensajes, se asesoran. Si alguien ve una patrulla de la migra avisan y envían una foto o video”, contó Ríos.
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Las organizaciones defensores de los migrantes no solo se limitan a advertir a los vecinos. Su labor es mucho más profunda. Una vez identificado un procedimiento migratorio y alertado a través de sus redes sociales, van al lugar de la redada.
“Usualmente lo que hacemos es ir al sitio. Hacemos presencia y les hablamos a los vecinos por megáfonos para avisarles que no salgan. Los agentes no pueden ingresar a las casas sin una orden. Así evitamos que los detengan en las calles”, contó a TN el activista Oscar Galindo, vocero de la agrupación californiana “Un día sin Inmigrantes”.
La población hispana se muestra agradecida. “Gracias y bendiciones por su labor de estar alertando a la comunidad”, respondió Bernabé Cornejo en un mensaje en Facebook.
“Esto es prácticamente una cacería”
Mientras tanto, en las calles, los agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) “perfilan racialmente” a los transeúntes. “Si tienen caras de mexicanos los detienen. Esto es prácticamente una cacería. Por eso el objetivo es que nadie salga porque la migra no puede quebrar puertas”, dijo Galindo.
Ese componente racial en las razias que denuncian las organizaciones de migrantes llevó a la solidaridad de otras minorías.
“La gente de la comunidad negra en South Central nos está llamando para preguntar cómo pueden ofrecerse voluntarios para defender a la comunidad de ICE”, escribió en un posteo en Facebook el grupo Unión del Barrio.
La Guardia Nacional de California rodea un edificio federal el martes 10 de junio de 2025 en el centro de Los Ángeles. (AP Foto/Eric Thayer)
Una usuaria le respondió con un pedido de ayuda: “Que vengan a Compton. Acá está lleno de guardias por la Alondra y Atlantic”, escribió Cecilia Ramírez.
Son cientos de mensajes en cada posteo en redes sociales. Algunos piden mesura, otros claman por un líder que aglutine la protesta y muchos se encomiendan a Dios.
Para Ríos, Los Ángeles tiene una cultura de resistencia que la diferencia de otras ciudades de los Estados Unidos. Pero las protestas, de a poco, comienzan a propagarse por todo el país. Por lo pronto, ya hubo manifestaciones en Nueva York, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Filadelfia, Boston y Washington.
“Esto se puede agravar. No pueden enviar a las ciudades tropas de combate que no tienen entrenamiento sobre cómo tratar a la sociedad civil”, concluyó.
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